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Make a joyful noise…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: January 9, 2012
- In: capacity-building | change | Equality | Family | Inclusion | Leadership | Pastoral care | Personal | PLN
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It’s been a wonderful weekend. On Friday, the feast of the Epiphany, our friend Chucks was ordained priest at our church, St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow. He was ordained by the Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway, the Right Revd. Dr Gregor Duncan. And on Sunday, Fr Chucks celebrated his first Holy Communion and Evensong as a [...]
Adult diagnosis- a personal reflection….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: December 19, 2011
- In: ASD | Autism | emotional education | Family | Inclusion | Personal
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You know something’s a bit different about you. All your life you’ve been perpetually anxious about the simplest everyday things…you know, will you catch the bus, will you be at the station or airport early enough to make your train or flight. Will you get a decent seat, will it be crowded, will you make it [...]
Scottish Autism
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 6, 2011
We had a lovely chat with the ladies from Scottish Autism ( used to be the Scottish Autistic Society, I think) yesterday afternoon in the showroom They talked about their plans for the future and the services they provide to people on the Autistic spectrum and their families and friends, and the tough times ahead [...]
Emotional education and society..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 1, 2011
Judging by what we read in the papers at the moment, Scotland is not a great place to be growing up in at the moment. Drinking, drugs, and dangerous sexual activity are endemic in our society. Knife and gun crime is the norm amongst many children who roam the streets in feral gangs without a [...]
Native linguists removed from schools..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 19, 2011
- In: Inclusion | Literacy | Leadership | Equality | change | capacity-building | future of education
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An excellent piece from Tom Shields in today’s Herald newspaper. He takes a rather witty and beautifully written series of pot-shots at Glasgow City Council Education dept for removing all foreign language assistants from their schools by remembering, somewhat fondly, his own experiences of the benefits of language assistants. The enormous benefits of having native [...]
I’ve been neglecting this blog…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: January 12, 2011
As the title of this post says, I’ve been very bad at posting recently. It’s the usual litany of excuses…flu, Christmas, more flu, kids and sheer laziness. To be honest, I’ve been taking advantage of all the extra time I’ve had now that I’m on my ‘career break’. I will be back into writing this [...]
Pride Glasgow 2010
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 17, 2010
- In: homophobia | Inclusion | LGBT
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Today was the bi-annual pride march through Glasgow city centre. Following a route from Kelvingrove park, about 3000 folk marched along Kelvin way, Argyll street, and through Finniston into the city centre, culminating in a rally and festival in George square. Occasional rain showers did nothing to dampen the usual Pride atmosphere of celebration, fun [...]
On society, inclusion, and evolving attitudes….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 15, 2009
- In: Equality | homophobia | Inclusion
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I think we’d all agree that society (whatever definition one gives to this term) evolves over time. Things don’t remain static and with this change, beliefs and values also evolve. I’ve certainly seen the way society treats minority groups change, and very much for the better, over the past thirty years or so. It would [...]
Self-evaluation – a wider purpose ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 4, 2009
- In: Equality | homophobia | Inclusion | Inspection | Leadership | LTS | Quality assurance
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There’s a lot of this going on all over the country at the moment. The new HMIE-lite inspection regime relies upon schools undertaking rigorous internal quality assurance where the concept of using self-evaluation to inform and enhance both the learning and teaching and just as importantly the life and ethos of a school. I blogged [...]
Our Learning community transition project. Bottom up initiatives with ‘sustainability’ and ‘scalability’
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 8, 2008
- In: capacity-building | games-based learning | Gaming | GLOW | ICT | Inclusion | sustainability | teaching and learning
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I’m currently working on putting together a project which is a part of our learning community transition programme. It’s all about games-based learning, delivered through the Nintendo DS and on-line through GLOW. I’m working with a fantastic group of head teachers who recognise the value in terms of education to the kids and professional development to [...]
Scotland the brave….and the pragmatic!
Posted by: mimanifesto on: August 23, 2008
- In: Equality | homophobia | Inclusion | Racism
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I first came to Scotland 14 years ago to study, and apart from a couple of years teaching abroad have stayed here. I don’t usually get into the game of comparing England with Scotland, but one thing that has always struck me is just how naturally welcoming and inclusive the Scots people are. Even traditional local rivalries [...]
How education really can make a difference….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 30, 2008
A couple of years ago,the case of the 11-year-old girl getting pregnant after a drunken night out on the town hit the headlines. I thought at the time that that was a shocking indictment of the state of sex education in schools. Predictably, the media attached the blame not only to her mother, but also to her [...]
Who’s afraid of the digital native ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 1, 2008
- In: ICT | Inclusion | Literacy
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I came across this video earlier today and just had to laugh – it reminded me so much of my grandson. The way he’s going, he will soon be teaching me how to do stuff on my pc ! Great ! But seriously, these are the kids we teach at the moment and will teach [...]
Food for thought….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 22, 2008
- In: GLOW | ICT | Inclusion
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The recent lesson I taught from home using GLOW meet really got me thinking. Of course, the pupils enjoyed the ‘novelty’ factor and were engaged throughout the 50 minutes or so, but on a more serious note, I feel I achieved just as much if not more in that lesson than I would if I [...]
Equal under the law, but maybe not so equal in schools
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 20, 2008
Prejudice against gays and lesbians is rife in schools because teachers are unwilling to face up to it. As we congratulate ourselves on the completion of another hard terms work, perhaps we can spare a thought for some of the things we didn’t learn at our teacher education institutions – real issues of equality and discrimination. For [...]
Schools are confusing multicultural education with anti-racist policies
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 28, 2008
- In: Inclusion | Racism
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Once again, racism rears its ugly head in the news with both Glasgow and East Dunbartonshire, listing disturbing increases in reported racist incidents. While officials from both councils express their concern, both admit that the reasons for this increase are unclear, except for, perhaps, an improved system of recording.And, of course, the anniversary of 9/11 [...]
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